On 11 Apr 2012, at 12:37, Mircea Markus wrote:

Not true. The recovery support we have implemented is there to solve just that and become consistent. There's no "just as consistent" but only "consistent" or "not consistent" :-)

Recovery assumes manual intervention though?

yes.

If so again you should document that cache stores only risk being inconsistent if you are using recovery.  Otherwise, the risk of inconsistency is the same risk you have with a non-recovery-enabled in-memory container.

So basically the risk of inconsistency when using cache loaders is there disregarding you using recovery or not. I'll add a statement to further clarify that recovery won't be able to reconcile the state.

Basically, you're trying to say Cache Stores don't support recovery.  ;)

nor atomicity, as data can be partially applied to the store during commit.